“The effort, known as the Defense Industrial Base (“DIB”) program, is a voluntary information-sharing program in which the Department of Defense shares “unclassified indicators and related, classified contextual information” about cyber-attacks and threats with defense contractors.”

“In exchange, defense contractors report known intrusions and can receive forensics analysis and damage assessments from the government after those attacks. In an optional part of the program, the DIB Enhanced Cybersecurity Services, the government shares additional classified threat and technical data with defense contractors and Internet service providers. “

“A teenage boy has been arrested on suspicion of being a member of “TeamPoison”, a computer hacking group that has claimed responsibility for 1,400 offences including an attack on the phone system of Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism unit last month. These include attacks on the United Nations, the UK Anti-Terrorist Hotline, MI6 and RIM, as well as politicians including Nicolas Sarkozy and Tony Blair.”

“The boy, who police suspect used the hacker nickname ‘MLT’ and was a spokesman for TeamPoison, was interviewed at a local police station on offences under the Computer Misuse Act on Wednesday. The arrest is part of an ongoing investigation by the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) division of the Metropolitan Police into various hacking gangs who have made headlines in the last year or so.”

“TeamPoison’s highest-profile attack was mounted against Scotland Yard’s counter-terror hotline last month, has also claimed responsibility Distributed Denial of Service attacks against banks in collaboration with Anonymous, another “hacktivist” group with similar anti-corporate and anti-authority politics.”